I picked up mine used for about $200 (US). It gives me good focal length options as I build up my fast prime collection. I don't feel the need to get top of the line glass for the 24MP body, especially when I plan on using old adapted primes for fun (in addition to native primes). That being said, I had Canon L glass for my old 10MP 40d, so I do believe that lenses are important, but right now I'd rather have one zoom walk around lens and a plethora of primes, and the kit lens works.

Would I prefer a 24-105mm? Yes. Did I want to pay 6x the cost for it? No.

I don't use GPS or tracking, so lot of stuff gets disabled. Streaming during my commute, texting and calling is all I need it for 95% of the time, once you basically cripple a smartphone they get pretty efficient, but you can enable what you need if/when you need it.

But yeah, I don't have to charge my phone but once a week comfortably.

Aren't they basically electric cars with a "small generator in the trunk"? You only need a way to turn fuel into enough eletricity to power the electric motors and trickle charge the batteries for more range and you probably trade battery space/weight/cost for the convenience of a fuel tank&generator. Adding the weight of two full drive systems seems silly.

I'm using a Nissan Leaf for this example because it's the first one I thought of to google.

Using your household 120v to charge it, it takes about 20 hours to recharge after driving ~150 miles. Which means you'll have to limit yourself to 7.5 mph if you want to break even driving with a theoretical long extension cord from your house.

Bump that up to 240v it takes 11-12 hours, so you can go a speedy 12mph.

Now cutting the cord, plop in a giant gas powered generator putting out 240v/30a, you can go 35mph for 4 hours to keep the batteries topped off.

If you go faster than any of those speeds, you are draining the battery faster than they can be charged by the generator, and at some point you'll have to park your car with the generator running for a few hours to be able to drive your "hybrid" car.

Using a traditional gas drivetrain augmented by electric drive is still the best way to minimize downtime for people that drive a lot, mainly because the technology isn't there for quick charging large battery banks.

That is possibly the most awful "explanation" of electric/hybrid cars I've ever seen... it makes no sense at all.
The leaf is full electric, why are you comparing it to ICE when a hybrid has, by your metric, no downtime...

You can never clean the rubber seals properly and they still get mouldy/taste funny.

Edit: I know how to wash things with soap and water. The problem is liquid getting stuck behind the seals and moulding. You can't get it out and its less plastic to buy a disposable bottle, use it until it gets gross and recycle it than it is to do that with a reusable one.

Didn't want to slam your inbox more, but I've been using vacuum insulated metal bottles for the past year for water and other liquids. I get paranoid about getting them clean, but both designs have easily removable seals, and I use a long bristle brush to reach and scrub out the sealing and mating surfaces.

i work tomorrow, and was thinking i'll watch some streamers while i do. then i realized it wont really be any different than watching them play standard league, except maybe 10 seconds every 10 minutes. And thats if they decide to capture or craft. Not very excited to log in when i have time again on day 3 and finish the acts.

Blink and mirror arrow minion damage only scales through minion damage nodes on the tree, not projectile,elemental, pierce, attack speed, etc nodes. They use the equipped bow and quiver, so you can add things like pierce and elemental damage from those items, but not the tree.

This literally has nothing to do with how fast other people clear things.
I really like to play mega off-meta skills, like bear trap.
And timed mechanics mean that if you don't have a certain clear speed, you literally can't interact with 1/2 the league mechainc.

But regardless, someone still has to catch them.
So it provides another currency flow from fast clearers, to slow clearers.
Which I can still appreciate.

Hmm. You still have to kill the beasts when you sacrifice them to craft, so you'll need a build that can kill 4 rare/unique monsters at a time if you want to craft, but if all you're doing is capturing, then yes, any build will be able to do that.

Another one will allow the TV broadcast to stay on the air in some fashion while commercials or ad messages play in other parts of the screen.

This sounds terribad. I imagine this is a split screen type of thing where the NBC show will play in 1 half while a commercial plays in the other half. I’d rather have a regular commercial break where I can fast forward.

Reminds me of when networks started playing with the banners at the bottom on the screen during shows. Eventually took up bottom 1/3 of the screen, and had their own audio and sound effects playing on top of the show.

I don't mind if they split screen the opening bumper of a show on one half while the ending credits roll on the other, but pulling away a still playing show to make room for concurrent advertisements is just idiotic.

My only concern is keeping up with contagion spread in order to capture beasts.

Other than that, life/MOM occultist transitioning to LL is my plan. I think it will be lower mapping dps than trickster, but hugely more defensive with tri-curse, es shenanigans, and a few other tricks.

Underbody aero is something that a few enthusiasts are looking into, either computer based or wind tunnel.

One of the big things was the benefits of "enclosing" the rear bumper and it's effect, it has been pointed out that factory rear bumpers on lower end cars act like big sails and catch a lot of air. Then seeing if a basic diffuser makes any difference on top of that. Truck wouldn't really be easy to test though.

For a truck, difference in skinny 225 tires vs 315, smaller 27 inch tall tire vs 35+, actually getting to measure the difference, or see the point where the solid front axles/diffs wreck havoc when the bumper isn't pushing the air away from/around them with different suspension lifts.

Blast rain on top of yourself = melee gets pushed back = no (or very few) melee hits. On top of yourself = more bow damage from Chin Sol + Point blank bonus. ~2.7 casts/sec, means melee mobs have .36 of a second to land a hit or be knocked out of range.

My current layout for 3.2 build: no close range bonus is 112k dps, close range bonuses is 360k dps.

The build that I use lost steam around patch 2.3-2.4, but it looks pretty strong in 3.2

This is something I can never seem to understand. How is it that you could choose to eat your children to survive only to end up living a life that sucks anyway? I get the whole “will to live” but how could you go on to live a shitty life AND knowing you ate your children? I would’ve preferred to die with them. Spare us all from the hardship and suffering ahead instead.

Same. Useless bonuses for some reason get under my skin. Like getting power charges for totems when playing an Ancestral Warchief with Resolute Techniques.

Really sucks because duelist is next to ranger and should have some nice bow perks on Ascendancies (not just generic 2h, and even the 2h slayer has some melee restrictions). Hopefully they mix up something with one of the other Ascendancies for duelist bowers. Otherwise ranger is pretty much always better for bow builds.

I'm confused about what he was trying to do. To reinstall Windows all you need to do is download a utility from Microsoft, plug in a USB stick, and it will make the restore drive for you. Then boot from the USB stick and you're good to go. It even detects your hardware (if you didn't change it in between the wipe and the reinstall) to pick up your Windows license.

Is his claim that he had to burn and sell Windows restore discs because it was so much of a hassle for consumers to do that they would simply buy a new computer?

That is the way it is now. I looks like this case started back in 2011-2013, so around the time Windows 8 was released, and there was a huge push to get people to upgrade. I don't think the Windows media tool was released by then, the only way to get a Windows 7 ISO was to buy or pirate. This was also before UEFI bios was everywhere, so OS license keys were not stored with the computer and had to be manually entered.

So he wasn't giving away license keys, just a pure install disk, which was unavailable from Microsoft unless you purchased a full version of windows, or dealt with the company that made your computer, and had them send you a recovery CD (not full windows install) that would attempt to wipe the system and recover from the recovery partition.

Last time I checked a recovery CD from most manufacturers was around $35, or you could get a free media install kit from this guy and use the license from the sticker on your device. But Microsoft, especially at that time, would rather you buy a full Windows release or upgrade to Windows 8 fix your old computer.

Basically he was giving people a way to fix their licensed Windows 7 computers without buying a new license or buying a recovery disk, and Microsoft didn't like that.

Yup. When I found a mint 1993 Land Cruiser, my bank didn't want to give me a dime.

So I took out an unsecured personal loan, got a cash discount on the vehicle, and paid it off in 6 months. Fun part is that I worked for the bank (IT side not financial) at the time, local branch was arguing with regional management about getting me approved for the auto loan, then made sure the loan I got had no penalty for getting paid early, so the bank made like $20 on the loan.

Why are people so up in arms about this phrase? To me it's another way of saying "My condolences" or expressing sorrow/support but I don't see people having a problem with those other phrases. Either way, no matter what phrase you use to express your condolences it doesn't do anything at all, so why is specifically "my thoughts and prayers are with the victims" getting people so antsy?

Also, realistically, what would you have been able to do to prevent this between two days ago and now?

I was already planning a Chin Sol/blast rain Chieftain, this is a huge boost to dps, and a lot less wastage on useless stats.

Current raider version of the build does 3-4x more damage with some defensive compromises, these changes make it even-ish (probably), but who knows what the raider changes will be that might keep it ahead.

And up until last week the site functioned fine without running scripts from redditstatic.com and not being logged in, but now you are forced to allow scripts to be able to use the site, which also enables the out.reddit.com clickjacking.

You'd have to keep an eye on your browser or sniff your traffic to be sure. The link that you click on (like this gizmodo article for example) doesn't actually go directly to gizmodo, it passes you through a reddit service that does whatever they want on their end before actually sending you to gizmodo.